[mythtv-users] Hughesnet satellite problems

[Bruce Keeler]

Some months ago, a couple of people reported having problems with  
myfilldatabase over Hughesnet satellite links.  I also had these  
problems, and have just now found a solution.  I didn't see any  
followups on the list, so I figured I'd let folks know how to fix this.

The problem is that Hughes have some kind of web accelerator that  
transparently proxies all HTTP connections through their system.   
Unfortunately, they don't implement keep-alive properly, and wget  
expects to be able to reuse the HTTP connection after the "401  
Unauthorized".  Adding the following to /etc/wgetrc:

    http-keep-alive = off

forces it to use a fresh connection, and things work again.

Hope this helps!

Bruce